Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674Princeton University Press, 2009 M01 10 - 392 páginas Why did the language of contract become the dominant metaphor for the relationship between subject and sovereign in mid-seventeenth-century England? In Wayward Contracts, Victoria Kahn takes issue with the usual explanation for the emergence of contract theory in terms of the origins of liberalism, with its notions of autonomy, liberty, and equality before the law. |
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... ”7 The perceived unreliability of both conscience and interest in turn precipitated an intense concern with the binding force of language. In Leviathan, Hobbes declared optimistically that “words are wise mens counters, they Chapter 4 • 1.
... concern in this way: “[W]hen I hear men speak of laying aside all engagements to [consider only] that wild or vast notion of what in every man's conception is just or unjust, I am afraid and do tremble at the boundless and endless ...
... concern with motivation dictated an interest in materialist accounts of human nature. The seventeenth-century attack on Aristotelian accounts of causation and of ethics had given rise to explanations of human motivation primarily or ...
... concerned with artifice and the passions, matter and making, as the two poles of any effort to reconceive the grounds of political obligation. Skepticism about the persuasiveness of an older normative discourse of virtue led at one and ...
... concerned to solicit the passions and interests, and move the will. Renaissance schoolboys first learned about the political uses of “the passions and the interests” not from political theory—as Albert Hirschman's influential account ...
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